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Poppy Day

British  

noun

  1. an informal name for Remembrance Sunday

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In 2017, Congress approved legislation officially marking the Friday before Memorial Day as National Poppy Day.

From Washington Times May 26, 2019

The voices of celebrities including Stephen Fry, Barbara Windsor and Joanna Lumley will echo across trains and buses as part of London Poppy Day.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2014

He said he had been "looking forward to a private meeting with the Queen and the duke on this the 25th anniversary of the Poppy Day bomb".

From BBC Jun. 26, 2012

Two years later he sang the Bee Gees hit I've Gotta Get A Message To You with a group of soldiers in support of the Poppy Day appeal.

From BBC May 20, 2012

Poppy Day – Siouxsie and the Banshees A war poem/dispatch from the underworld.

From The Guardian Sep. 16, 2010

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